ILX Metal n' Heavy Rock Poll 2017: NOMINATIONS thread - open till Dec. 19th!

might go with 'both'

the new album is their first good one. i like it a lot

does the extremely synthy/proggy arcane roots record count, there's at least four minutes of heavy riffage on the record

I've just blurted out "fucking hell they're still going?" about 15 times in 30 seconds gj kerrang

I'd like to nominate pretty much every album from the Stereogum list that hasn't been nominated yet, because every album I've sampled so far from that list has been great:

Rope Sect - Personae Ingratae
Violet Cold - Anomie
No Faith - Forced Subservience
Sabbath Assembly - Rites of Passage
Hell - Hell
Verge - The Process of Self-Becoming
Jassa - Incarnation of the Higher Gnosis
Psudoku - Deep Space Psudokument
Chaos Moon - Eschaton Mémoire
Unearthly Trance - Stalking the Ghost
Turia - Dede Kondre
Condor - Unstoppable Power
Heretoir - The Circle
Demonic Death Judge - Seaweed
Arkhtinn - V
Au Dessus - End of Chapter
Sarcasm - Within the Sphere of Ethereal Minds

Also, the Pillorian album is called Obsidian Arc

Going through the Stereogum list myself. It's....well aside from the albums I already know and love there's some decent stuff, but nothing to really blow me away. Dodecahedron was threatening to be quite good but didn't hang on. Anyway I'm only a quarter of the way through so who knows

from the Kerrang list I'm gonna go ahead and add

Creeper - Eternity, In Your Arms (I hesitated at first but honestly it's at least as heavy as Ghost and QOTSA)
Arcane Roots - Melancholia Hymns
Glassjaw - Material Control

Just found out that Mesarthim had The Great Filter and Type III released as a single disc by Avantgarde Music. This presents an ethical difficulty for me

Does it count?

simon we generally automatically include as nominations anything that gets in Kerrang/Decibel/Terrorizer/Revolver lists

ehhh xp

I think maybe it doesn't count, which is a shame. If they'd held off releasing the tracks individually last December it'd be a clear AOTY contender

i will probably vote for the presence ep

oh me too, the title track is one of the most audacious things ever released under the 'metal' banner

simon we generally automatically include as nominations anything that gets in Kerrang/Decibel/Terrorizer/Revolver lists

can't wait to vote for Paramore

A few usually do

And that would be totally defensible for literally any other Paramore album

as far as I remember there are basically no metal or even rock elements on the Linkin Park album either.

there are none

i mean "talking to myself" is arguably "rock" but that's as close as it gets

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ILM's 2017 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / NOMINATIONS THREAD

Pyrolatrous - Teneral

(my campaigning buzzwords for the above: Gilead Media, Krallice drummer)

spirit adrift is really good!

hoooooly shit PSUDOKU

ultros and dleone get the fuck on this

OK that's fucking nuts.

YES

hahahahaaa

Vespero - Shum-Shir
The Spacelords - Water Planet
Void Generator - Prodromi
Moths & Locusts - Intro/Outro
Nik Turner - Life in Space
Plastic Crimewave Syndicate - Thunderbolt of Flaming Wisdom
Yagow - Yagow
Maat Lander - Season in Space Vol. 1
Lamagaia - Lamagaia
Snakes Don't Belong in Alaska - Mountain Rituals
Space Spectrum - Dark Side of the Red-Eyed Queen
10000 Russos - Distress Distress
Ancient River - O.D.D.S. 2
"the band whose name is a symbol" - Do Not Stack Flat

Multishiva - Time Messer
al-Namrood - Enkar

Missed there was a new Vespero. Off to check it out.

Fuck it

Pontiak - Dialectic of Ignorance

Nominations wrap tomorrow night!

Satan's Hallow - s/t
All Pigs Must Die - Hostage Animal
Belus - Apophenia
Cavernlight - As We Cup Our Hands And Drink From the Stream of Our Ache
Deinonychus - Ode to Acts of Murder, Dystopia and Suicide
DragonForce - Reaching Into Infinity
Hellripper - Coagulating Darkness
Break City Drowwners - Riphouse
Impure Wilhelmina - Radiation
Impureza - La Caida de Tonatiuh
Lunar Shadow - Far From Light
Oceanwake - Earthen
Part Chimp - IV
Saule - s/t
Witherfall - Nocturnes and Requiems

Haha EZ that Vespero might be one of the best things I've heard this year

I know I've nominated a ton of stuff but if there's one I'd recommend everyone to check out it's the Colotyphus album.

oh whoops i need to not miss the nominations period this time

There's still time!

now for something only I could ever vote for

Thumpermonkey - Electricity EP

There are rumours of an incoming consignment

Potence - L’Amour Au Temps De La Peste
Ugory - Padlina
Gnod - Just Say No to the Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine
Gnaw Their Tongues - Hymns for the Broken, Swollen and Silent
He Whose Ox Is Gored - Paralyzer
Aether Realm - Tarot
At the Drive In - in.ter a.li.a
Yowie - Synchromysticism
Heaven In Her Arms - White Halo
Dopelord - Children of the Haze
Hour of Penance - Cast the First Stone
Utopianisti - Brutopianisti
Wobbler - From Silence to Somewhere

There are rumours of an incoming consignment

??

it's right there!

I had my doubts. Glad you could make it tt

We had a sneak peek at the Forgotten Spell last night btw - it was sounding like the most metal thing on earth obv

Not sure if it's metal enough but

Brutus - Burst

Dirge - Alma Baltica

(haven't heard it yet but since the nominations round ends today I want to be able to vote for it if it's good)

Some I, Voidhanger releases I haven't been able to listen to in depth but will hopefully get to soon:
Bloodway - A Fragile Riddle Crypting Clues
Tongues - Hreilia
Clearing Path - Watershed Between Firmament And The Realm of Hyperborea
Inconcessus Lux Lucis - The Crowning Quietus

Brutus def counts

i only have one nomination but it's incidentally like the best metal album i've heard this year

Lunatii- Elimino

I had my doubts. Glad you could make it tt

Thank you! Glad to be here! Now we commence listening...